i had a friend come in to assist tracking my own band a couple weeks back (i'm a drummer, so it can be tricky sometimes). i've been on steinberg platforms since i switched to digital many years ago and have been on cubase 6 for about 5-6 years now. i know some quick keys, but def could probably brush up and learn more. it has been fine for my workflow, but editing full band takes can get a bit messy sometimes, as can keeping multiple takes. partially for that reason (also thanks to my years of analog recording), i try to not keep too many extra takes of things, but sometimes this can't be helped or it seems to be wise for efficiency down the line.

my friend is more familiar with pro tools and had switched from a very old version of Nuendo many years ago. he insists pro tools is much easier and quicker, once you get used to it. i'm curious if i just need to learn some more quick keys or if i'm actually wasting some time utilizing my old DAW for editing and should just take the damn plunge on Pro Tools already?

anyone else switch recently and/or utilize multiple platforms? I have Reaper also, but don't track with it often as I'm just faster in Cubase.

I'm ALWAYS fastest in Sony Vegas (I know I'm like the only person in the world recording with that software), until I need to pass something along to someone using Pro Tools and I have to bounce a million stems. Otherwise, lightning fast.

I'm sure its what you're used to. I do know that some software makes more sense to me. I can't, for the life of me, get comfortable on Digital Performer. I feel like no one who worked i audio had anything to do with the programming and UI development. Pro Tools makes more sense to me. Most thing that I would want to do in the hardware world can easily be done on PT, as well as all of the things one wants a DAW for.

For me Cakewalk Sonar was the fastest. There are just a ton of things you can do in terms of editing regions without having to go to an edit window or anything. Right in the multitrack view you can trim, edit, and fade in/out regions with various key combos and also by hovering over certain areas of the regions.
There are also some quick comping tools that work pretty great when you get the hang of them. There used to be a really cool beatmapping function. But it got gutted when they added in their looping/autotuning features.

In Logic I find the same procedures to be much more tedious. The beatmapping is okay, editing in multitrack view isn't as fast, and fades are not so easy.
However, Logic crashes much less, and give me far less headaches in terms of sync and soundcard setup.
While still being pretty powerful on the MIDI side, and being a Mac program so I don't have to deal with Microsoft.

I've only used PT a few times over the years. I hear it can talk MIDI now?
Wow it's growing up so fast.